Jeremy Hunt

It’s day one of the Conservative Party conference and the Prime Minister is calling on her party to unite for Brexit but that hasn’t stopped Boris Johnson calling her Chequers plan ‘deranged’. We’re in Birmingham to speak to former Home Secretary Amber Rudd about her party’s Brexit worries.

The mother of a little boy who died from a rare form of childhood cancer has appealed to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to intervene in a funding row over a drug which could cure other children. Gemma Lowery, whose six-year-old son Bradley suffered from neuroblastoma, wants an antibody treatment to be made available on the…

The Government continues to deny it’s a crisis, but new figures from the health service information centre, NHS Digital, show that the number of elderly people waiting for more than 12 hours in A&E departments in England has more than doubled in the last two years.

The government says it wants most hospital doctors on seven-day contracts by the end of this parliament, claiming thousands of patients are dying unnecessarily thanks to lack of weekend cover. The British Medical Association says its members welcome a seven-day NHS, but it wants to know how ministers propose to pay for the extra hours. The…